I guess everyone must have seen the Google: Reunion ad by now and for sure everyone must have loved it. After seeing the ad apart from the subtle emotion which was so eventfully potrayed through the ad raised a question in my mind..... Are we too much over- dependant on Google?


There is no doubt in anyone's mind that Google is one of the most innovative companies that ever existed. They have a array of world class products starting from Google search or their power and reach of Andriod as a Mobile OS or be it their future products like Google Glass which has already creating the buzz before its getting released even.



As once Peter Parker (or Spiderman) said "With great powers comes great responsibilities", Google is one of the powerhouses of the Internet world. The fate of a particular product or a site more or less depends on the Google Rank or SEO it fetches on the search page which is still a mystery to the majority of the population as of how google allocates a Rank to the page or site. I agree there are so many formulas or techniques which can fetch you a good page rank on Google but there is no sure shot way for that and Google being the dominant force can change the formula as it so did with its recent Search algorithm update code named "Hummingbird" and change the whole equation overnight.

Now coming to personal information, with products like Gmail, Google + and Android, Google knows more about us than our parents literally. What it does with the information is it feeds us with ad's which are the major source of google's revenue. With recent news of US Government spying on its servers raises a serious question of privacy in one's mind. So too much power is vested in Google's hand and its raises a concern of who is using it and how they are using it.


But instead of all this if you ask me personally is this all worth it... I would say definately a big YES. Personally speaking i cannot roam around the city Bangalore without using the Google Maps for a single day or cant even imagine life without it. Google changed the way we live our lifes by giving us information in our hands whenever and wherever we are. It definately has more pros than cons and their so called "Don't be evil policy" stands in way of everything else.

To sum it up i guess dependance on technology is good but overdependance is where it will spoil us.